Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have gotten the first-ever look at the light of ancient stars shining around some of the biggest, brightest and oldest black holes in the ...

(CNN) -- NASA has chosen teams of scientists to use two powerful orbiting observatories, part of a fleet of space telescopes in the works that could reveal the first stars and galaxies ever formed ...

At the summit, 13 telescopes sit along a ridge of formations that have built up around volcanic vents. The oldest telescope on site, and still the smallest, is the University of Hawaii’s 2.2 ...

It was dismantled and put into storage. Now, a group of amateur astronomers has secured NASA grant funding to give the lenses from the old telescope new life. They’re working to build a new ...

In times like these, we all need to look beyond ourselves. This project might help: OnStep is an open-source telescope controller, a device that controls a telescope to point at something ...

"Galileo's work with the telescope unleashed the notion that ours is a sun-centered solar system and not an Earth-centered solar system," says Pitts. In other words, from that ugly old cylinder ...